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Reference number: 
B 2490 - 1
Obverse: 
B 2490 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0803769dc
Image Title: 
Judeo-Arabic document
Subject: 
Legal documents
Description: 
A legal testimony from the year 1225 (1536 in the Seleucid calendar) written under the auspices of Abraham Maimonides (1186-1237)
Creation site: 
Egypt: Fustat
Date created: 
1225
People covered: 
Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon (1186-1237)
People covered: 
Bint Abu 'l-Surur (12th-13th cent.?)
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
107 mm
Item width: 
83 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Oriental
Notes: 
10 lines. Date expressed as Sunday ... Tammuz ... and 36 years according to the Seleucid era. "Negidenu Abraham" mentioned on line 5.
Transcription: 
Discovery site: 
Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
Current repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Former repository: 
Moses Gaster
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Fragments
Image rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access rights: 
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number: 
B02490 - 1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2008-02-06
Date: added: 
2008-08
Metadata language: 
eng-GB